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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. GRDNER AND SAMUEL H. GARDNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOX QR BASKET.

SPECIFIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 252,027, dated January 10, 1882.

ApplicationflledJuuefl, 1881. (Nemodel.)

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN M. GARDNER and SAMUEL H. GARDNER, citizens of -the United States, residing a New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes and Betskets; and we d0 hereby declare the followingto be a full, dem, and exact: description of the invention, such as will enable ot-hers skilled in the art t0 which it appertaius to make and use the same, reference being had t0 the accompanying drawings, and t0 the lette'zrs 01 figures of reference 1narked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to baskets, boxesor the 1ike, formed of laced veneers or similar material; and the novelty consists in the coustruction and arrangemeut 0f parts, as Will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a convenient and ornamental box or basket, the parts of wh'iuh are held in operative position by cords or lacings, and which may be readily taken apart and coxr xpactly folded for trans portation 01 storage; and t0 this end I employ the 1naterials herein described and the coustruction shown in the accompanying drarvings, which fonn ayart 0f this specification, and in which Figure l is a top plan view, with a. portion 0f the sides displaced, and with apart of the bottom broken t0 show the sevvral thieknesses;

Fig. 2, a side elevation, partilly broken away Fig. 3, a detail view.

In carrying 0ul: the invention I take preferably two' or more thicknesses of veneer, cross-grained, and properly secured together to form one section. 'Near the side edges 0f each seetion are formed a series of perforations adapted to receive laces, and in the bott0m 0f each section, upon the same edge, is

formed a kerf or recess to receive studs 01 lugs upon the bottom. These boxes or baskets are formed triangular, hexagonal, or polygonal, and the bottoms are of similar form, the 001'- ne rs having projections, as shown.

' Referring to the drawings, A represents the bottom, of polygonal for1n, and provided a1: each corner with a stud, pin, or otsher projection, d, which is received in the recesses b 0f the sections B. As many sections are used in the formation 0f a baskel; as there are sides to the bottom, and the sections are secured together by laces C, which operate through the perforations 0 nea.r the contiguous edges of the sections, the bottom b eing held in place 'by the projections d resting in the recesses b.

'lhe sections may be ornamented at will, and the laces be of such contrasting or gay colors as will best please the fancy.

T0 take th is baskel: apart it is only necessary t0 undo one 0f thelaces, when the hottom b'ecomes disengaged am] the sides pack together very closely.

"As shown, the side sections are' variously perforated, and difi"erent ornamentatiorns may be made by tastefully weaviug througlu such perforations variouscolored worsteds 01" the lik'e.

Having lhus described our invention, what we elaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A box 0r baket formed of a p0lygonal bottom having projections als thrve 01 m0re 0f its eorhers, and a number of reeessed and perforated sections eorresponcling to the numher 0f sides upon the botto.m seid sectiuns receiving the said projeetions, and the whole being seoured together by laces, substantia1ly es sp eified.

2. 'lhe bottom A, h aving projeclious d, combined with the series of sections B, lmving perforationsc and recesses b, and with the laces (J, as and for the purposes set forth.

- In testiruonywhereof we affix our signatures in presence of two' witnesses.

JOHN M. GARDNER. SAMUEL H. GARDNER.

Witnesses:

GEO. R. HERRIGK, F. F. RUISE. 

